Archive for July, 2013

Among the unique aspects of Ramadan in Egypt is the lantern that decorates most of the Egyptian streets during this season known as the Ramadan lantern or fanous, which is the Greek word for light. The Fatimids, who ruled Egypt more than a thousand years ago, had issued a law requiring shop and house owners […]

A Masjid goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to Masjid. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 Lectures. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of […]

Knowledge is like water. The purest gives life and the contaminated brings death. I believe in serving the community being a part of it. My community has a history of cultural legacy. The Dawoodi Bohras are the Shiate Ismaili Fatemi Tayyebi Daudi sect of Islam. Long Live Aqamola 53rd Dai al-Mutlaq Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin (TUS) successor of His Holiness Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (RA).

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written by me. The blog is intended serve as my journal and dairy of interesting
reading I have enjoyed and want to share. Some write-ups do not have the name of its
author, the reason behind it is that I do not know the original source nor the author. If
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